For the last few years, it’s been easier to sack New England quarterback Tom Brady than to get the National Football League thinking about a more progressive Internet strategy. “They’ve been very dictatorial about the amount of [video highlight] content you can put on your Web site,” Gartner Digital Media Analyst Allen Weiner told the […]

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Movie fans will soon have yet another way to get online content through their televisions. Netflix has signed a deal to offer video streaming through a new LG Blu-ray DVD player. The device marks Netflix’ third online-to-TV partnership and will be the industry’s first Blu-ray system to offer instant streaming.

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Search engine giant Google is setting up a new venture capital arm and has hired William Maris, a 33-year-old former entrepreneur, to help coordinate the venture fund, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Google is the latest in a long line of large companies across several sectors to create a venture capital […]

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